Hi Sean On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 02:24:27PM -0500, Sean D. wrote: > you are correct Flavio the RPM must have replaced qmail-queue with a > wrapper... thats bad right? i mean its not the "official" way of having no, it's not really bad. You can run it that way (I for example do it, if that helps you :). In my opinion it's easier as you don't have to worry that the QMAILQUEUE env is unset (eg shell users or webmail) and circumventing qmail-scanner...
> a patched qmail-smtp binary right? I had installed 1.20rc3 manually but > as soon as i sent it a message cpu maxxed or something.. the machine I guess the problem was this: This is how it was setup before you installed 1.20rc3 mail comes in -> qmail-queue -> qmail-scanner.pl -> qmail-queue.orig now the default setup of qmail-scanner changed it to: mail comes in -> qmail-queue -> qmail-scanner.pl -> qmail-queue --> XXXX Do you see the loop? :) I would recommend that you look for the original qmail-queue (the rpm must have moved that) and change the qmail-queue path in qmail-scanner to that file instead of your wrapper. Everything should be fine again then... > became so slow i had to put in a reboot ticket with rackshack.. ohh man > that was a long night... hehe.. now i know why i guess... also without a > patched qmail-smtp does that explain whu i dont have the smtp.rules file > for tcpserver? or why dont i have that? because the goofballs at plesk Yes, that's the reason. > use xinetd to call it up? AFAIK xinetd would support setting the environment var but i really don't know. IMHO plex must do it this way, as they are not allowed (at least under the normal license) to distribute patched versions of qmail. Hope it helps & Greetz Flavio -- http://no-way.org/~fcu/ ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Qmail-scanner-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general